This is the second of eight volumes presenting Tibetan views on a controversy that arose in Buddhist India over how to refute production from self.
It stems from the first stanza of the first chapter of Nāgārjuna’s Fundamental Treatise on the Middle Called “Wisdom”:

Not from self, not from others,
Not from both, not causelessly
Do any things
Ever arise anywhere.

The present book provides two Tibetan explanations, shorter and longer, by the Tibetan scholar Jam-yang-zhay-pa Ngag-wang-tsön-drü (1648-1721/1722) of Chandrakīrti’s defense against Bhāvaviveka’s criticism of Buddhapālita’s commentary. Included also is a complete translation of the relevant section of Chandrakīrti’s Clear Words. The controversy between these commentators engendered a split in what came to be called the Autonomy School and the Consequence School within the Middle Way School.
The topics involved in this series of four books are used in Tibetan monastic colleges to draw students into fascinating reflections about how phenomena falsely appear and thereby to explore the nature of the reality behind appearances. In this volume Jamyang-zhay-pa takes the reader step by step
through Chandrakīrti’s adverse reactions to Bhāvaviveka’s often terse criticisms of Buddhapālita’s refutation of production from
causes in which effects already exist non-manifestly. Chandrakīrti is considered to have the final word in the debate.
This complex material is used in Ge-lug-pa monastic colleges to draw students into fascinating reflections about how objects appear and thereby about the nature of the reality behind appearances.